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Toward modernity, distro advice (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm still on Pop!_OS 22.04, the last release version. My applications are getting very out of date from being tied to the jammy package repo.

It looks like Pop.next is still in alpha, which suggests it could be 2026 before it's RC. I don't actually like any other distro — I built a new laptop on Mint, which I only tolerate. But I'm getting nervous, and the UIs for enough apps have evolved sufficiently that it's creating some cognitive load to remember how to use both versions (LibreOffice and Evolution stand out).

What have people chosen to do?

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

the year is 2008. taylor effortlessly uses the singular they in a hook, at a time when probably none of us would have thought of it, in a song about hetero high-school heartbreak.

now they're lighting the world on fire over pronouns. this isn't hollywood. this is a hellmouth.

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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Sam on Mastodon (linked post) grumbles about the profanity filters on jmp.chat (presumably from upstream providers) and getting messages rejected. I've experienced the same, including having my account blocked if I mistakenly send it twice.

When I inquired, support said they were working on improved "routes" (upstream providers) and that I would be waitlisted for the beta of the new routes. That was months ago and I've heard nothing since.

Has anyone gotten into the beta program, and does it improve the situation? Because sometimes you just don't have two fucks to give.

I might need to switch my phone provider. As much as I've loved having all my messages delivered via #XMPP, jmp.chat's upstream providers decency filter is killing me. I constantly get text messages rejected for using swear words. If you ask they insist that all phone providers do this, but if I copy the same message over to my other provider it sends fine.

Are there any other good VoIP providers (not necessarily with XMPP compatibility, but that would be great) that aren't puritanical?

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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

What is the default chat retention period in Snikket instances provided by JMP? Is it configurable in the admin panel for an instance?

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Molly-UP deprecation (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

F-Droid just pushed a Molly-UP update that appears to only add a deprecation warning, and that holds the version number below Molly-FOSS.

There are no instructions. The Install link points to the repo, which F-Droid just notes that I already have.

In the past I have completely lost Signal history twice, once from reinstalling Signal itself but it refusing to read the backup, and once from trying to upgrade from Signal to Molly but having a backup versioned in the wrong direction.

Is the safe process for replacing Molly-UP written down anywhere? I would strongly prefer keeping Unified Push, but I feel like I've been told to walk into a dark tunnel.

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

There's a lot of consternation about the number of services that refuse to register against a JMP number. At the core I suspect it's about information sharing — your carrier will happily give your details to third parties, where JMP doesn't have that information to begin with.

I dealt with this differently. I stopped thinking of my mobile as my 'real' number, but instead as my public one. All personal contacts have my personal JMP number, Signal is registered against my JMP number. Cellular SMS has notifications silenced. When an SMS is important, like when logging into a bank, I know it's coming. No unexpected SMS is welcome.

This works for me because my friends don't use voice, so JMP having metered talk time doesn't matter. But mainly, I don't think of either number as 'real'. I pay for both, and each has its use.

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Magic Earth and spurious closures (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I've tried Magic Earth a handful of times, but each time I dumped it because it marked a street as closed or wrong-way, creating a circuitous detour. There's no such issue in OSM; it simply hallucinated something.

I was testing it so I knew where I was going, but I'm reluctant to rely on it when I really need nav. Have I been supremely unlucky?

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1:1 xmpp-matrix bridging (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

My primary home is in XMPP for Reasons, but it would occasionally be useful to DM someone in Matrix.

I know there are bridges, through aria-net if I remember correctly, and I know encryption is impossible through a bridge. Aside from encryption, is connection seamless or is it glitchy, and if the latter, are we talking occasional nuisance or Cone of Silence?

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

i sent out a plea for spanish pop music and this came back. it's exactly what i wanted

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Dino and GNOME 44 EOL (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I have Dino 0.4 on Ubuntu. Whenever I upgrade anything in flatpak, it tells me that Dino is using a GNOME 44 runtime and that it’s out of support.

Is Dino under active development, and I should just hold tight? Or should I be looking for a different XMPP client?

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

whole lotta history 4k remaster just came out. i don't know how soon i'll be able to watch it again, since it ends with sarah walking wistfully along the seine. i hope the girls are able to remember her somehow on the tour.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

OSM has a lot more data inside than the website shows - in dense shopping areas you can't zoom in far enough to see all the POIs, much less business names.

I've read before that using cached previews was done to stay accessible to less-powerful mobile devices, which would have smaller CPUs that would be taxed by rendering the native vector data. I view it as a branding disadvantage that OSM appears, from desktops, to have less info than alternatives. But that's a battle that's been had many times before, one might as well argue over paper vs plastic.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

it's perhaps interesting to see what existing apps ZipoApps has on the Android Play Store.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

i rather doubt a government would push people out of signal-protocol apps and into Some Other App if they didn't already have a backdoor into the designated substitute

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Our map data is often downloaded and used offline on various devices for several weeks or months. For offline data to be useful, it should at least be expected to remain unchanged in the next few weeks when you map it.

yes, by this blurb, concession for offline users does supersede safety.

i'm an editor active enough to have been granted foundation membership but hadn't known this rule; it indicates a view of osm as analogous to a paper map rather than for real-time navigation. if a change of less than weeks' length is discouraged, i can't in good conscience steer my friends away from google maps, as navigation is not a primary use case.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

it is common practice in the u.s., at least, to use two nodes for big chain drugstores, where the shop, marked chemist, often has wildly different hours from the pharmacy. they have the same name and much of the same info

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

i agree, but my unpopular opinion is that mozilla has also proven this repeatedly, with nothing and nobody being universally better. privacy people love firefox, but i spend a lot of time with each major version's release notes figuring out how to undo the new telemetry (increasing integration with pocket, firefox suggest, location that won't turn off).

my threat model is 'they're all evil, including mozilla', so there are additional rings around everything

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

inside the addons page: eBay is port scanning visitors to their website - and they aren't the only ones

that one is very interesting if one has any coding background

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

that tripped me up too - but it's just the web demo. if you install it, your browser doesn't matter

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

i'd never heard of this concept! i have a disorganized stack of markdown files - notes, to-do and packing lists - that this looks ideal to tame

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

on android, i have three.

  • the default browser is an f-droid rarity called 'privacy browser'. it is configured to allow scripting but reject practically everything else (storage, cookies). this will break lots of things, but i feel safer with this as the initial offer. it's wired to a searxng instance for search. i have a personal hosted homepage that it uses for home.
  • if i am opening something myself, i use an app shortcut that opens my home page on mull. mull itself doesn't believe in home pages, so i have to use a shortcut. it uses a searxng instance for search. it's configured to discard all data on quit. if something breaks on privacy browser, i share it into mull.
  • for sites in which i need a persistent login, i use duckduckgo browser, again with an app shortcut since it doesn't believe in home pages. i don't open links in ddg, instead sharing them to one of the other two. i don't search here since you can only use ddg.

on desktop (all platforms), i use brave with a lot of stuff turned off, homed normally and pointed to the same search instance. i have cookie autodelete to burn cookies as i browse. i spend a lot of time manually deleting local storage.

i don't love this flow. what i really would like is one browser that would:

  • load my home page when i click its icon
  • burn all cookies and local storage on exit, except from domains i designate

i haven't found an answer for that yet, would love ideas.

i have previously used and discarded, for various reasons: vivaldi, firefox, firefox focus, chromium, librewolf. i carry some of these for occasional use, either for 'let it through' or 'fuzz all the things' threat models.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

the keepassxc ssh-agent is an absolute lifesaver

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

long ago i shifted to vscodium, a packaged version of only the open-source base of vscode that provides most but not all of the available extensions. for two reasons: so that i didn't leak telemetry to m$, and so that i wouldn't get used to features that aren't open source. it's available in a lot of package managers, mac/windows as well as linux

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